Okay, people, welcome back, and now we’re gonna begin the first stage.
Chapter 3: Zim Pays a Visit Planet Flora Hundreds of plant-like children were hoarding truckloads of broccoli onto Irken ships, with shackles on their legs.
The children appeared to be nothing more than walking flowers with faces on them.
Two floating robots, both with stick-like bodies, one with a cube-shaped head and one with a sphere-shaped head, appeared to be giving orders.
“YEE-HAW!” exclaimed the cube-shaped robot in a western accent.
“Get ‘long li’l Florans!
This here’s jus’ about enough broccoli to feed every kid in the whole dang galaxy!” “Cubot,” said the sphere-headed robot, “your voice chip is stuck on cowboy again.
Shouldn’t we fix it?” “Awe, shucks, Orbot!
Why you always gotta be so serious?
Y’all need to loosen up!
And besides, Tallest Purple loves my western accent!” “Well, Tallest Red doesn’t, so let’s get back to the Massive and fix that chip!” “Oh, no need.
How about you let us give it a try?” “Whuh?!
Who said that?!” The two robots turned their heads, scanning the area for the British accent.
One of the Irken ships exploded.
“I say,” said Orbot, “I’m quite glad we weren’t on THAT ship!” Another ship exploded.
“Or THAT one!” exclaimed Cubot.
More ships exploded until there was only one left; the one the two robots were standing in front of.
“What in Galaxia is going on here?!” asked Orbot.
The ship they were standing near exploded, blowing the robots back.
Before everyone’s eyes, Nigel Uno and Ava Raga…Raga…something-or-other came swooping down, firing lasers from their Arwing and Heart Star.
They swooped across the ground, creating a gust of wind that nearly blew the children and Irkens, and as the ships shot back upward, Nigel and Ava dropped out, landing firmly on their feet.
Ava switched out her swords while Nigel held up his- Galactic Kids Next Door: S.H.O.O.T.E.R.
Simple Hunting Offensive Often Terrorizes Enemies Regularly -and began blasting all of the shackles off Floran kids.
At the same time, his new partner was knocking out Irken soldiers, leaving the Floran children to cheer.
“We wouldn’t mind fixing that chip of yours!” declared Nigel.
“Jumpin’ joeies!” yelped Cubot.
“If it ain’t the young jelly-bag from Planet Earth!” “And the young Glomourian at that.” observed Orbot.
“Here to try to ruin our plans, I presume?” “Do we usually have another reason for being here?” asked Ava.
“No, I reckon you don’t.
But you’re gonna have to do a wee bit more than blow up a few cargo ships!
The mines up ahead’r filled to the brim with enough broccoli t’ feed ever’ kid in Galaxia!
And there ain’t nothin’ you c’n do ’bout it!” “So, you’re saying we can do something about it?” replied Nigel, raising an eyebrow.
“Huh?!
What’s he talkin’ about?!” asked Cubot, scratching his head.
“What he’s saying is,” replied Orbot, “since you said ‘ain’t nothin’ you can do ’bout it’ and ‘ain’t’ and ‘nothin” are both negatives, and using two in one sentence would cancel them out, it was as if you were saying that they could do something about it.
See, this is precisely the reason why you should get this chip fixed.” “Leave it to robots to point out the obvious.” Nigel remarked.
“Er…” Cubot was still scratching his head, trying to understand.
“Uhhh… NEVER MIND!
Either way, you ain’t never gonna beat King Croacus and blow up these here mines!” “You just did it again!” Nigel retorted “Uhhh… Er…” “I’ll explain it later.” Orbot said.
:Let’s just go warn Croacus they’re here.” “I reckon that there’s a good idea!” The robots flew off.
As they left, Ava turned to Nigel and asked, “Nigel, when we jumped stylishly out of those ships, you did remember to set your Arwing to ‘autopilot,’ right?” “Uhhh-” But before he could say something, they watched his Arwing shoot down and crash in the distance.
“Eh, hehehehe.” Nigel blushed, grinning and scratching his head nervously as Ava stared disbelieved.
“Please, you probably forgot to set yours, too.” They then watched as Ava’s Heart Star flew above the smoking Arwing, released a grappling claw down, and grabbed it before carrying it over and dropping it with a thud beside the operatives.
“Oh, like YOUR ship has the ultimate autopilot.” At this remark, the Heart Star flew down and kicked Nigel with a boot.
“OW!” Nigel rubbed his head and glared at Ava as she smirked victoriously.
“YAY!” cheered a female Floran.
“You saved us from the big, mean green aliens!” “You guys are awesome!” cheered a male Floran.
“Don’t celebrate, yet.” replied Numbuh 1.
“We still need to stop Croacus and blow up these mines.” “Well, whatever you do, please don’t hurt King Croacus too hard!” replied the female Floran.
“He usually isn’t this much of a bully!
He’s normally a lot nicer!
We think those Irkens must’ve did something to make him go crazy!” “Well, we’ll be sure to make note of that.” replied the Earth operative.
“But for now, let’s take these time bombs and bury this broccoli!” “Right!
Let’s go!” (Play “Tropical Jungle – The Jungle” from Sonic the Hedgehog 2006!) Stage 1: Floran Forest Mission: Make your way to Flora Broccoli Mines!
“All troops, ready arms and secure route to the broccoli mines.
Keep these brats at bay at all costs.” Floro Sapien troopers charged at the duo, lashing vine-whips.
Nigel’s wrist was caught by a whip, but Ava sliced him free and started to cut away other whips as they were lashed.
The Floro Sapiens then launched their own spiraling heads at the duo, and they came back like boomerangs.
Nigel grabbed one of the heads and tossed it to bounce around and knock out more Florans.
They hurried ahead as they spotted another truck of piles of broccoli.
Ava’s Heart Star flew over and shot lasers, destroying the shipment and creating a huge cloud of smoke.
The duo went down a pathway over the trench where some Irken soldiers had Floran kids chained by their legs and forced to mine.
The Irkens caught notice of the operatives’ appearance and began to shoot them.
Ava spun her blades and deflected shots while Nigel shot the Irkens with his S.H.O.O.T.E.R..
Afterwards, Ava dashed over and sliced the chains with a flash of her blades, and the children cheered.
Overhead, an Irken cargo ship was passing by.
Ava held onto Nigel as he launched his G.R.A.P.P.L.U.H.
onto the bottom of the ship, allowing the two to swing across.
They dropped and landed on the other side of the trench and continued into the forest.
The Floran Forest was covered by trees that towered as high as skyscrapers and shrubs and bushes so big, it made it difficult for the duo to see the way.
Ava sliced their way open as they proceeded across, however, some bushes came to life, with blaring red eyes and sharp fangs.
The evil M.
Bushes snarled and leapt at the operatives, but Nigel shot them dead in the mouth while Ava sliced them in half.
They continued their way past the shrubs and crouched down when they spotted two Floran soldiers, holding whips as they talked to each other.
“Hey, did you catch that new episode of All My Sprouts?” “Yeah, and to be honest, I think Chikita Le Peela’s losing her appeal.
One time she was on that corno, and-” Nigel and Ava decided not to let them finish as they jumped out and wiped the two out.
Afterwards, they continued across the forest and stopped when they reached the ledge over a small gorge.
Several Irken broccoli trucks were driving through the wide gorge, so Nigel and Ava decided to hop onto the nearest one.
“Blech!
This is gross.” Nigel whined.
“At least you’re fully armored.
Come on, let’s get moving.” The duo began to hop across the many truckloads as they made their way to the front.
Floran soldiers were rising from the broccoli mounds, wielding spray guns that were filled with a broccoli gas.
Nigel and Ava rolled to the side and avoided the gas as Ava tossed a sword and sliced one, the sword coming back like a boomerang.
Nigel kept shooting the others until they were down, and the group continued jumping across.
Nigel saw they were coming by some tall trees and grabbed Ava as he launched his G.R.A.P.P.L.U.H.
up to a branch.
He pulled them over and swung them up other branches before taking land along the ledge of the tallest tree around.
“Think we’ll see the mines from here?” Nigel asked.
Ava pulled out her- Galactic Kids Next Door: M.A.P.
Missing Absently Possible -and studied it.
“Hm… it’s a little to the east of here.
There is a vine up this tree we can use to zipline across the forest.” They proceeded across the pathway around the tree as Irken soldiers ambushed them.
Nigel tried to shoot them, but an Irken fired a goo gun and clogged his S.H.O.O.T.E.R..
They tried to stick Ava, but the Glomourian child rolled over and avoided their shots as she kicked one’s goo gun up and kicked the Irken across the face.
She ducked the shot of another Irken and ran to slice his weapon in half, then kicked the child soldier over the edge.
She then went to cut the goo off Nigel’s weapon as they pressed forward.
Nigel shot his G.R.A.P.P.L.U.H.
to pull them up to a higher ledge, where more soldiers were threatening to push Floran kids over a diving point.
Nigel tapped an Irken on the shoulder from behind and punched him in the face when he turned, knocking him over.
Ava then proceeded to kick the other Irken upside the face, causing him to fall over.
The Florans cheered as the duo went over to climb a vine wall on the side of the tree.
Some large spiders were in their way, but Nigel was able to shoot them away with his blaster.
As they climbed along to their left, an Irken ship hovered by and released a laser at the vine wall ahead of them.
The ship drew a circle around the wall ahead of them several times before that entire chunk of wall crumbled.
“Heee-yeah!
You up for a game of Kick the Slurm?” “HECK YEAH!” “WHEEEE-YOOO!” The cheering Irkens flew away in their ship.
“Oh, great.
How do we get across now?” Nigel asked.
“I got it covered.” As Ava spoke, she grabbed one of her swords and tossed it into the broken gape in the wall.
She kicked off the vine wall and onto her sword, using it to bounce to the other side.
“Well, come on!” Nigel mimicked her actions and bounced the sword, getting by her side.
Afterwards, Ava held her hand open, and her sword flew into it.
“Wow!
Cool swords!” “It’s easy when we have a natural bond with our swords.” The duo continued across the vine wall and landed on a safe ledge.
Before they moved onward, they approached a strange, mechanical stand that was on the ledge.
The stand opened up and revealed some equipment as it showed a hologram of some kind of toad-like alien.
“‘ey, what’s up, guys!
Numbuh 20×40 here, head of the Galactic Kids Next Door 20×40 technology office!
Numbuh 256 wanted us to make sure her operatives were prepared wherever they went.
You want any weapons or ammo, we’d be happy to give some!
‘Course, this stuff don’t come cheap.
Find us some Bolts, and THEN we’ll talk.
Oh!
I see you already got a thousand.
That’s enough ta buy this new B.O.O.M.E.R.
glove.
Interested?” “Well… it may come in handy.” Nigel shrugged.
“Cool!
Just hold your Infi-Space Cube under the scan, and we’ll take them Bolts off your hands.” Nigel pulled his Infi-Space Cube out of his pocket and held it under a glowing point.
Instantly, a thousand Bolts were sucked from the cube and into the stand.
“Ni-ice!
Okay, it’s yours.
Enjoy!” The stand closed as Nigel grabbed his new weapon.
Galactic Kids Next Door: B.O.O.M.E.R.
Bombs Obviously Oppose Many Enemies Regularly After purchasing the item, Nigel used the G.R.A.P.P.L.U.H.
to swing them across more aligned branches, landing them on another ledge.
They were finally at the long zipline-vine that seemed to across over yards of forest.
“Umm, maybe this is a little dangerous.” Ava said, noticing how high they were.
“Don’t tell me you’re scared of heights.” Nigel smirked.
“Pfft, I can think of worse things to be afraid of.
We’re just gonna go for it?” “I don’t see why not.” With that, both gripped onto the zipline and excitedly zoomed over the towering woods, wind blowing against Nigel and Ava’s faces.
When they were zipping below the tree tops, the vine suddenly snapped, and they were about to fall into a massive Venus flytrap.
Nigel immediately shot his G.R.A.P.P.L.U.H.
to a branch and pulled them to safe ground just as the flytrap snapped its mouth shut.
The duo pressed further through the forest as Hunter Destroyer robots stood up and took aim on the kids.
They rapidly fired bullets, but the two dodged to the side as Nigel tossed a grenade from his B.O.O.M.E.R.
at the first robot, blowing it up in one hit.
The other one was fixed on Ava, who spun her blades to deflect the bullets, as Nigel tossed a grenade at it and blew it up as well.
The kids climbed a ladder to the ledge of another tree and crossed a rickety bridge over a trench down below.
From the other side, Irken soldiers came across in large, mechanical wheels, determined to run the ops over.
Nigel quickly tossed two grenades at each of the wheels, blowing them up when they were nearly inches away from crushing the two.
The kids continued across the bridge and climbed down on the other side.
“Ergh.
I think one of the parts of those wheels scraped me a little.” Nigel grunted.
Ava looked around and spotted some thin, dangly, wormlike plants sprouting from the ground up ahead, hurrying over to one.
She touched the wormy plant, and it made a hum as it dropped a heart onto Ava.
“Check it out, they’re Health Plants!
They give you health if you pet them.” Nigel smiled and walked over to his own Health Plant.
However, when he petted it, a mouth of sharp fangs opened up and snapped his arm.
“YOW!” Ava quickly ran over to slice the plant.
“My mistake.
Some of these are Hurt Plants.” “Ugh.
Let’s just go, we should be close.” They passed through a few more shrubs until they were at another pathway where broccoli trunks were rolling across.
They looked and saw the trucks were coming out of a dark cave ahead.
“Hey, there’s the mine!” Nigel whispered.
“Target sighted.” Ava smirked.
After waiting for the last truck to leave, they came out and hurried toward the mine entrance.
However, one last broccoli truck came out and stopped before the operatives.
The truck suddenly transformed into a giant robot, its shipment of broccoli in a backpack on its back.
The robot held its arms out and fired broccoli out of its wrist cannons, the two dodging as Nigel tossed a grenade at its left foot, doing a little damage.
The robot was able to hit him with a broccoli piece, causing the operative to become dizzy from the poisonous substance.
The robot was about to stomp on him, but Ava tossed a sword through the back of Nigel’s suit, sticking him over to a tree.
Afterwards, the Glomourian child ran over, and as the robot tried to shoot her, she stabbed her other sword through a broccoli piece, caught it, leapt on its arm, then kicked into the cockpit.
She shoved the broccoli down the Irken’s mouth, causing him to grow sick.
Ava flipped out as the robot toppled over.
When Nigel recovered and brought Ava her sword back, the two smirked and did a handshake before turning to enter the darkness of the mines.
(End song.) Sector V Treehouse “You know, guys… I’ve been thinking…” Hoagie said, breaking a moment of silence.
“What if… we did move to different sectors?” “What?!” his friends gasped.
“I mean, just… since we’re not getting any better without him… and he moved on to GKND… maybe this is a sign that-” “NO!” Kuki shouted.
“I never EVER wanna split up!
I mean, where am I supposed to go, Sector JP?!
Those guys are BOOOOORING!” “Yeah, and I’ll be darned if I let Numbuh 86 tear us apart!” Wally stated.
“‘Guess Numbuh 5’s a bad leader after all…” Abby muttered to herself.
Hoagie faced her.
“Wait, I didn’t mean it like…” “Ahhh.
Poor, insolent humans.
Their tears flow like that of an infant.” They grew alert hearing the unfamiliar voice.
“Up there!” Numbuh 3 pointed.
Invader Zim was clutching the ceiling, wearing a black wig and fake eyes.
Zim dropped from the ceiling and landed in the center of the living room.
The team drew out several weapons and began firing at Zim.
Zim rolled and dodged the attacks until he made his way to the gang and was able to knock the weapons out of their hands.
The team charged toward the alien and successfully tackled him to the ground.
“We have you now, skirt boy!” declared Wally.
“Now, who are you and what are doing in our treehouse?!” “GIR!” As Zim called, his robot minion came flying in through the window using his built-in rockets.
He flew down and shot through Sector V, grabbing his master off the floor.
Once Zim was in the air, he pulled out his goo gun and fired at the team of four, sticking them to the floor.
The team tried to break free, but the goo held them down tight.
“Foolish Earth creatures!
Did you really think you stood a chance against the glorious wrath of ZIM?!” Zim hopped off GIR and got back on the floor.
“But thanks to you, my suspicions have been realized!The puny Earth human, known as Number 1, is indeed with the Galactic Kids Next Door!” “Hey!” replied Abby.
“How do you know about the…” her sentence was cut short as Zim threw off his wig and ripped off his lens, revealing his true self.
The team gaped: a real live alien was before them.
“My name is Zim!
I am an invader from Planet Irk sent here by my Almighty Tallest to DESTROY you filthy Earth children!
You see, for as long as we can remember, the adults of Planet Irk have been trying to spread glorious adulthood to the children of the universe.
But only one thing remained in our way: the Galactic Kids Next Door!
Yes, the one group of children that resisted the glory that was adulthood.
They traveled the universe, fighting off our rule, convincing others to join them and make their own adult-fighting organizations!
But they will pay!They will RUE the day they ever crossed the Irken Empire!” “Wait a minute!” exclaimed Numbuh 2.
“Why would you want to spread ‘glorious adulthood’ if you’re a KID?!” “Because, puny Earth pig, unlike most children throughout the universe, the children of Irk are smart.
They know that the goal of every child should be to grow up!
And they are going to do whatever it takes to realize that goal, as well as to make every other child realize it.
So, the Tallest sent each worthy Irken child to their own planet to conquer and spread the great word of adult tyranny.
But while everyone else gets to go ahead and conquer, I’m ordered to merely spy on the humans and find their weak points, just so the armada can come and do the conquering!” “Well, sounds like these Tall Guys don’t care about you that much!” joked Numbuh 2.
“SILENCE!
But when I heard the Earth pig on your Nightly News talk about the ‘missing operative,’ I knew something was afoot!
And, as I suspected, this Earth boy was taken by GKND!” “Yeah, so Numbuh 1 was recruited into them.
So what?” “SO, I plan to find this ‘Number 1′ and destroy him, so I can prove to the Tallest that I am capable of so much more than spying.
And the reason I came here was so I could find something that belonged to him and use it to track him down!” “Well, you’re out of luck.” smirked Numbuh 2.
“We gave Numbuh 1 all of his belongings just before he left!” Zim noticed the sunglasses that Abby was wearing.
“Nice sunglasses.” “Uhhh, thanks?” “You wouldn’t mind if I… STEAL IT!” And with that, Zim snatched the glasses off of her face.
“Hey!” “Foolish Earth creatures!
I saw the picture of Number 1 on your Nightly News program!
I know he wears sunglasses!
And now I will use these to track him down and bring him to his impending doom!” “YAY!
DOOM!” cheered GIR.
“Even if you do find him, you don’t stand a chance!” said Numbuh 2.
“He didn’t become galactic operative for nothing!” “Perhaps.
But he’s never tangled with the likes of ZIM!
When I get through with him, he will look worse than the result you’d get for mixing a child with a GLOMOURIAN WORM-DOG!!” And with that, Zim laughed maniacally as he hopped on GIR’s back, who activated his rockets and took off to the sky.
The blue-eyed shadow being that watched from under the couch thinks he’s seen enough.
So, I’ve significantly cut back on that stuff.
Keeping some of the silly humor though, at least.